The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight, artfully arranged on church lawns or entryways across ...

It’s rough to be a theologian of incredible insight and depth who is essentially forgotten or ignored for the first 550 years of your existence and then turned into a cliché for the last 100. Welcome ...

“To be young, gifted, and Black, right?” Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) says to Shuri (Letitia Wright), joking about the burdens of being a young Black woman and the brightest student in her MIT ...

Not until the Christmas they were in kindergarten and second grade. With the December scholastic film festival concluded, my ...

Lesley Finn is an award-winning writer and visual artist. She teaches at Yale University and the Center for Fiction in ...

Occasionally one of my children will ask me, “Am I your favorite child?” This both elicits a laugh I don’t think they were ...

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, is nowhere near Lemon Tree Mound.So, it was something of a surprise a ...

Stepping forward to receive the host, I spread out my palms before I remember these aide memoires inscribed in black biro, blots not quite scrubbed away. The leftnow sat awkwardly in right ...

Clare Bryden is a writer, artist, and consultant from the United Kingdom. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you ...

“I became a complete person after my son died.” The spirit of singer Nick Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur, who died in a fall from a cliff in the British seaside town of Brighton in 2015, animates the ...

Istart my mornings by emailing everyone at my organization a roundup of immigration headlines and news. I’ve been working on the communications team at the National Immigrant Justice Center since I ...

I was probably halfway through divinity school when I turned to my husband and said, “I think I have a very fundamentally Christian mind.” My husband, raised in an almost completely secular home, ...